Ref.: Keith, Stanton B. (1974), Arizona Bureau of Geology & Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 189, Index of Mining Properties in Pima County, Arizona: 111 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines files data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10026872, MRDS ID #M000684; and, Dep. ID #10161881, MAS ID #0040190163.
A former small underground Cu-Ag-Au-Pb mine located in North-central sec. 25, T.16S., R.4E. (protracted), 6¾ miles SW of Comobabi. Produced 1922-1947. Owned at times, or in part, by the Comobabi Copper Co.; Charles M. Taylor; George W. Pidgett (Pickett ?); and, J.A. May.
Mineralization is quartz veins on fractures along a contact of Cretaceous (?) andesite porphyry volcanics with Laramide granitic intrusive. Spotty, largely oxidized, argentiferous copper and lead minerals.
Workings are shallow. Produced up to 100 tons of ore averaging about 0.2 oz. Au/T, 24 oz. Ag/T, 6% Cu and minor Pb. Production years unknown.
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